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Key elements of the Liberal government's firearms-control announcement
OTTAWA - Key elements of the Liberal government's firearms-control announcement Monday: - A national freeze on importing, buying, selling or otherwise transferring handguns, with very limited exceptio...
May 30, 2022
France blames ticket fraud for Champions League final chaos
PARIS (AP) - French authorities defended police on Monday for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final, while blaming industrial levels o...
May 30, 2022
France blames ticket fraud for Champions League final chaos
PARIS (AP) - French authorities defended police on Monday for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final, while blaming industrial levels o...
May 30, 2022
'It was magical': Youth Fine Arts Night showcases local talent
Hundreds of people attended a Youth Fine Arts Night on Saturday at La Ronge's Churchill Community High School. It was hosted by the Tri-Community Dance Club and featured group members, musicians, as w...
May 30, 2022
First RCMP supervisor of N.S. mass shooting describes miscue in containing the killer
HALIFAX - The Mountie who led the early response to the Nova Scotia mass shooting testified Monday that his plans to block the killer's escape were thrown off by a subordinate's "misunderstanding" and...
May 30, 2022
Pacific season's 1st hurricane makes landfall in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Agatha, the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific, swept ashore on a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns in southern Mexico on Monday...
May 30, 2022
All in the family: Team Fernandez no longer just a party of two
PARIS - Can Canadian Leylah Fernandez win Roland Garros? "I hope so! But that victory is far away. I just want to appreciate this win, and concentrate on my next match," the 19-year-old from Montreal ...
May 30, 2022
Second degree murder charge laid in La Loche
La Loche RCMP have arrested a local woman and charged her with second degree murder. According to an RCMP media release, on May 28 at approximately 1:10 a.m., police received a report of an injured in...
May 30, 2022
Yukon supervised drug consumption site upgraded to allow indoor smoking
WHITEHORSE - Those who use illicit drugs may now smoke their substances at the supervised drug consumption site in Whitehorse, becoming one of the first facilities in Canada to allow inhalation indoor...
May 30, 2022
Ottawa's main Canada Day celebrations to be held at LeBreton Flats Park
OTTAWA - Large-scale Canada Day celebrations will return to the national capital July 1, with most of the action taking place in a park just west of Parliament Hill. Daytime and evening shows are sche...
May 30, 2022